Kuliax Log

We had a notification from DokuWiki when we logged in to wiki in kuliax.org on July 19, 2007. It told us that there was a XSS vulnerability discovered in DokuWiki and we should read the bug report for manual fix or upgrading the current version.

Actually the vulnerability is discovered in spellchecker backend and affected all version to 2007-06-26, even when spellchecker is disabled. But we’ve just known from the bug report that the vulnerability only exploitable with IE browser because of its broken MIME handling.

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Frappr.com is one of map services on the Internet targeted for mapping communities. We just think that what if we can mapped people around Kuliax: developers, contributors, users, and supporters in one map. So we’ve created a map in frappr.com: www.frappr.com/kuliax.

So add yourself to the map and show your support to Kuliax Project

Kernel patch developed by Con Kolivas (CK) for 2.6.22 has been released. This is the last -ck patch ever. We planned to use this patchset in Kuliax 7.0 to improve the responsiveness and interactivity, like we did in our first 6.0 release. Why CK discontinued this project? quoted from ck.wikia.com, CK stated the following reasons:

• If whatever performance advantage it has is all but abolished compared to mainline then there is no point maintaining alternate patches to achieve the same endpoint.
• All interest I have in kernel development, even out of the mainline spotlight, has been… abolished (I had nastier words but decided not to use them.) It is clear that I cannot develop code for the linux kernel intended only to be used out of mainline and not have mainline get involved somewhere along the line. Whether it be the users or even other developers repeatedly asking “when will this be merged”. This forever gets me into a cycle of actually trying to merge the stuff and … well you all know what happens at that point (again I had nastier words but decided not to use them.) So, I’ve had enough. I’m out of here forever. I want to leave before I get so disgruntled that I end up using windows.”

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Linux Kernel 2.6.22 has been released on July 8, 2007. Torvalds said in the git web interface:

Linux 2.6.22. Woo-hoo. I’m sure somebody will report a “this doesn’t compile, and I have a new root exploit” five minutes after release, but it still feels good ;)’.

And that sounds good for us too, because we can use this kernel version in Kuliax 7.0 and start building it with our planned patches, configuration, and optimization.

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Maybe you want to know how we examined RAM problem in the previous post. We have tried several ways to do it:

• fsck.ext3 -c, ex: as root run fsck.ext3 -c /dev/hda6, it will check ext3 filesystem in the logical partition number 6 with badblocks checking.
• badblocks, this is separated program used for searching badblocks in a storage device. The recomended way to run this app is by using option -c via fsck.ext3. But if you want to run it directly never mind, it’s your choice, I’ve told you. Just run: badblocks -n /dev/hdaX for non-destructive mode instead of running it with option -w. You can’t combined the options in a single command. Continue Reading »

We had been facing a problem in our development machine for about one week or so. Thankfully, it was solved on Monday, July 25. The problem, as far as we know, is probably the RAM or the slot. At first, we thought our problem was the harddisk or specifically partitions, some kind of error/incorrect partition table.

We had checked the harddisk with all available software tools but we didn’t get any problems on it. But if we detached the additional 256 MB RAM, there were no problems arised! Yes, actually we did a full backup of our data, including Kuliax development-related files, then did all around test. Just make sure all work out OK.

Status of the machine by July 29: OK. So we shall continue cooking Kuliax 7.0.

Thank you for reading this post

We have just added a page in kuliax.org: Kuliax 7.0 Roadmap. Please read it, send your suggestion to the mailing list, and start discussing on Kuliax 7.0. We hope Kuliax 7.0 has features which you may expect, in a possible way.

Btw, the page will change often, so please see the modification date.

We have given a talk and presentation about Kuliax Project and Kuliax at Seminar Exploration of Information Technology (EXIT): Saatnya Go (Free Software dan)* Open Source on May 28, 2007. The location is in Ruang Auditorium FTI-UII, Jogjakarta.

There is someone who came to give presentation also for FOSS, as a representation of KPLI Jogja (LUG-ID-Jogja): Yodi. Mr. Agung, the President of KPLI Jogja, the one who should be presented the topic, at that time had a time fight against his lecturers in his final examination.

It’s about eighty or ninety attendance on the Seminar. Everybody seemed stay around and didn’t go out when we presented Kuliax :D.

* we just add it, you know what it means

Our bugtracker at kuliax.duniasemu.org/bugtracker/ has been successfully moved to bugs.kuliax.org. Please try, use, and tell us what you think about our bugtracker.

We have a good news too, Kuliax Project now has a bugtracker manager: Muhammad Fuad.

We had a problem in our hosting site on May 12-13, we could not access kuliax.org and Iceweasel/Firefox always said “Firefox can’t find the server at kuliax.org.”. We had reported the problem to the admin of our hosting, and he said he could access kuliax.org from his office. The weird thing, we also couldn’t visit kuliax.org in some Internet cafes as well.

The admin gave us an option to move our site from IIX to North America. Before doing that, we had tested the site located in there, and it was fast enough, but not as fast as the old one. As long as it “fix” the problem, we are all happy with it. So we planned to pack and the admin said he will help backup our files and databases.

After we reported the problem on that day, it fixed on May 14! the question is do we need to move to the new hosting site in America?